'''Vorondil''' was one of three [[Stewards]] to serve King [[Eärnil II]] of [[Gondor]].

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}}'''Vorondil''' ([[Third Age]] {{TA|1919|n}}<ref>{{PM|Elendil}}, p. 204</ref> – {{TA|2029|n}},<ref>{{App|South}}</ref> aged 110 years) was the second of three [[Stewards]] of [[Gondor]] that served King [[Eärnil II]].

==History==

==History==

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He was an important figure in Gondorian history, as the first of the Stewards to inherit the title by direct line from his father. Vorondil was the son of [[Pelendur]], the Steward who had assumed the rule of Gondor during the crisis following [[Ondoher]]'s loss. On Pelendur's own death, his position as servant and adviser to the King fell on Vorondil his son.

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Upon the death of his father, [[Pelendur]], the Stewardship of Gondor became hereditary within the [[House of Húrin]] and thus Vorondil succeeded to the position.<ref name="Stewards">{{App|Stewards}}</ref>

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Vorondil's Stewardship was a time of war and loss for Gondor. In only his second year as Steward, he saw the [[Nazgûl]] come out of [[Mordor]] and lay siege to [[Minas Ithil]], and two years later still, they succeeded in capturing it and the [[Palantíri|Palantír]] it contained.

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Early in Vorondil's Stewardship Gondor was attacked and suffered a serious defeat. In {{TA|2000}}, the [[Nazgûl]] issued from [[Mordor]] to besiege [[Minas Ithil]]. The city fell in {{TA|2002|n}} and with it they took the [[Palantíri|Palantír]] therein.<ref>{{App|TA}}</ref>

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History remembers Vorondil less for any part in the loss of Minas Ithil, though, and more as Vorondil the mighty Hunter, who hunted the [[Kine of Araw]] in the far eastern lands on the shores of the [[Sea of Rhûn]]. The great horn carried by [[Boromir]] in [[The Lord of the Rings]] originated as the hunting horn of Vorondil, and may even have been made by his own hand.

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Vorondil was remembered as "Vorondil the Hunter" for his hunting of the [[Kine of Araw]], found near the shores of the [[Sea of Rhûn]].<ref>{{App|South}}</ref> From one of the wild white oxen he fashioned a [[Great Horn]], bound with silver and written with characters.<ref>{{TT|IV5}}</ref> It had been passed to the eldest son for generations within the House of Húrin and [[Boromir]] was the last to carry this horn.<ref>{{RK|VI1}}</ref>

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Vorondil served [[Eärnil II|Eärnil]] as Steward for twenty-one years. Just as he had inherited the position, he was in turn succeeded by his son [[Mardil Voronwë|Mardil]], who was to become the first of the [[Ruling Steward]]s and the founder of a tradition that would survive in Gondor for nearly a thousand years.

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Vorondil was succeeded by his son [[Mardil]], who would become the first of the [[Ruling Steward]]s.<ref name="Stewards"/>

Vorondil was remembered as "Vorondil the Hunter" for his hunting of the Kine of Araw, found near the shores of the Sea of Rhûn.[5] From one of the wild white oxen he fashioned a Great Horn, bound with silver and written with characters.[6] It had been passed to the eldest son for generations within the House of Húrin and Boromir was the last to carry this horn.[7]